BAJOS DE HAINA, Dominican Republic, April 11, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A basketball court in the Dominican town of Haina became a ...

accompanied by the trumpet sounds of music teacher Felix Silvestre. He had to stop playing several times to cry. "You have to find strength where there is none because people died there ...

The unlucky ones did not manage to escape when the roof of the Jet Set club -- a 50-year-old institution in Santo Domingo -- collapsed while popular merengue ... by the trumpet sounds of music ...

This is a merengue orchestra.’ I replied, ‘But I don’t know how to sing merengue.’ And he came back with a challenge and told me: ‘Well, a good singer can sing anything.’” ...

Family members bade a tearful farewell Thursday to merengue singer Rubby Perez, who died this week when the roof of a Dominican Republic nightclub crashed down on him as he did what he loved best ...

Kayla Malott, residential living director at Heritage Pointe of Warren, the Indiana retirement community where Anson lives, has a theory: She thinks maybe Anson's daily trumpet concerts help him ...

FELIX CONTRERAS, BYLINE: The hundreds of people who attended the Monday night performance at the Jet Set nightclub in downtown Santo Domingo were there to dance merengue, as performed by one of ...

At the outset of their collaboration, Vargas dubbed the singer “the loudest voice of merengue,” an appellation the vocalist wore proudly. An enthusiastic performer, Pérez brought high spirits ...